About me
Who am I?
Who am I?
I grew up in Cambridge, MA alongside an older brother with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Watching him grow over the years inspired me to study psychology: I wanted to help people like my brother achieve the same happiness that he had found. In college, I was introduced to the concept of psychological research. As a lifelong math nerd, I was fascinated and excited by the idea that the mind’s unknowns could be scrutinized using statistics.
After graduating from Oberlin, I worked as the joint lab coordinator for the two Cognitive Development Labs at Wesleyan University, headed by Anna Shusterman and Hilary Barth. There, I worked on projects investigating a range of topics, from children's bias in spatial perception to the development of number word acquisition.
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I graduated from Oberlin College in 2014 with a B.A. and high honors in psychology. My honors project investigated the effects of information value, omission, and theory of mind proficiency on adults' evaluations of informants in informal pedagogical contexts. This project stemmed from work I did with Hyowon Gweon during an internship at MIT in the summer of 2013.
This study investigated the effects of the arrangement of options on children's selections from those options
I did my doctoral work under the expert supervision of Elizabeth Bonawitz at Rutgers University - Newark. Motivated by past computational models of pedagogical reasoning, my dissertation investigated how our ability to learn from others remains robust in the face of non-ideal circumstances, and how our inferences generalize to new learning scenarios.
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